Music Publishers Can’t Add Lyric Piracy Claims to Anthropic AI Training Lawsuit

Piracy has go a hot-button contented successful AI litigation ever since Anthropic reached a $1.5 cardinal colony for torrenting books — but specified claims won’t beryllium portion of the copyright infringement suit brought by euphony publishers against the Claude chatbot maker.

Federal tribunal records amusement that connected Wednesday (Oct. 8), Judge Eumi K. Lee denied a question by Universal Music Publishing Group, Concord Music and ABKCO Music to amend their 2023 lawsuit against Anthropic. The lawsuit centers connected claims that Anthropic trained its ample connection exemplary Claude connected copyrighted opus lyrics and present spits retired copycat lyrics erstwhile prompted.

The euphony publishers asked successful August to adhd piracy claims to the lawsuit, saying they’d precocious learned that 7 cardinal books successful Anthropic’s grooming arsenal were illegally torrented from online pirate libraries. The publishers said their intelligence spot is apt portion of this booty, including galore euphony and lyrics compendiums and the expanse euphony to hits similar Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer” and Ariana Grande’s “7 Rings.”

The publishers’ projected amended ailment was portion of a bigger inclination successful the dozens of AI copyright cases making their mode done the tribunal system. Plaintiffs person been focusing connected piracy since a landmark June tribunal opinion held Anthropic liable for storing torrented books, and the inclination lone intensified aft Anthropic settled that case for $1.5 cardinal successful September.

The large grounds labels, for example, are presently trying to amend their copyright lawsuits against AI euphony generators Suno and Udio with caller stream-ripping claims. Suno and Udio accidental specified allegations are legally bogus.

Anthropic opposed the amendment successful the euphony publishers’ lawsuit arsenic well, slamming the caller claims arsenic an improper effort to “fundamentally alteration this lawsuit astatine the eleventh hour.” The AI institution said the publishers could person discovered their torrenting enactment agelong ago, and that adding piracy claims present would unfairly hold the already two-year-old case.

Judge Lee yet sided with Anthropic. According to Bloomberg Law, the justice stated during a tribunal proceeding successful San Jose, Calif., connected Wednesday that the amendment is inappropriate due to the fact that the publishers failed to decently analyse the piracy mentation earlier.

The publishers’ lawyers declined to remark connected the ruling connected Thursday (Oct. 9). Anthropic’s reps did not instantly instrumentality a petition for comment.

While Wednesday’s ruling is simply a nonaccomplishment for the publishers, they won a triumph conscionable a fewer days earlier erstwhile Judge Lee rejected Anthropic’s bid to trim down the archetypal copy...